My dream connects to three thousand years later.

Chapter 242 Mandate from Heaven, May Your Life Be Long and Prosperous (First Update)
After a while.

In the third district, in a teahouse in an affluent area, there is a private room.

Chu Zhu calmly sipped his tea. Opposite him sat Ning Linglong and Li Kang.

"How much longer?" Li Kang glanced at the time on his phone and asked, puzzled, "And who are we waiting for?"

Chu Zhu gave the answer she had given countless times before, "Soon."

Li Kang's eye twitched, and he hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped. "You said you weren't in a hurry, so why were you rushing me like that when you called me earlier? You acted like the entire Third District was about to be wiped out, but now that I've arrived, you're all so leisurely?"
Ning Linglong started eating tea and snacks. She had rushed over and was having breakfast.

Sudden.

The door opened.

A tall figure walked in.

"You are... Chief Huo?!" Li Kang was about to express his dissatisfaction when he saw his superior, his words caught in his throat, and his expression stiffened.

“Mr. Zhu, now, I believe you about 40% of what you said about the trouble that happened.” Huo Qiming glanced at Ning Linglong sitting opposite Chu Zhu, then sat down directly next to Chu Zhu. “The forbidden area key you asked me to use has disappeared.”

"...Hmm?" Chu Zhu's eyelids twitched.

"It can only be said that there is a mole!" Huo Qiming sighed softly, but his eyes concealed murderous intent: "Moreover, there are moles in the logistics department of the Commandery and inside the bank. They obtained the password through this, which is why they were able to steal the key without anyone noticing! Moreover, the last time the key was used was several days ago, so it must have been stolen in the last two days."

"I also checked and found that the keys hidden in several other banks... were also missing!"

Chu Zhu tapped her fingers lightly on the table, lost in thought. So, the other keys are also for opening other nuclear facilities?

He looked at Li Kang: "Now, drag Bi Xuan over here as fast as you can."

“…Him! Alright.” Li Kang opened his mouth, but before Huo Qiming could question him, he stood up, gave a serious salute, and left, treating himself as a subordinate.

"Old Huo," Chu Zhu asked again, "are you currently the most powerful person within the official system of Jinghai City...?"

"I guess so." Huo Qiming thought for a moment and nodded.

"Then, do you have any way to summon other top-tier official experts?" Chu Zhu asked again.

Huo Qiming gave Chu Zhu a deep look. "If the procedures are followed, it's possible. However, this requires absolutely irrefutable evidence! Or rather, something must have already happened on our end..."

"Then it's alright." Chu Zhu's lips twitched. Even if something really did happen here, it seemed that things could be pushed back in the capital.

Chu Zhu continued to gather her thoughts, when suddenly she thought of something and looked at Huo Qiming: "I want to ask, what is the current situation of 'Goddess Nuwa'?"

Huo Qiming's face suddenly tightened. Ning Linglong's movements stiffened, and she looked at the teacup in her hand with a serious expression. Ah, these emerald green tea leaves are so beautiful... but all those other colorful seasonings are just... well... wouldn't it be better if we just kept the tea leaves and removed everything else...?

"If I can gain the unconditional support of the Goddess Nuwa simply by entering the Imperial Ancestral Temple in the capital!" Chu Zhu carefully chose her words, "then what level of power will I be able to obtain?"

Huo Qiming gave Chu Zhu a deep look. The information revealed by Chu Zhu's words was already unimaginably vast.

"...Don't say that to others!" Huo Qiming glanced at Ning Linglong across from him, pursed his lips, and chose to ignore her. He trusted Chu Zhu's thoughts. Since she chose to tell Ning Linglong what happened, it must mean that she trusted Ning Linglong.

"I don't know." Huo Qiming only gave a four-word answer to this.

Chu Zhu frowned, and then heard Huo Qiming continue, "In my entire life, I have only entered the Imperial Ancestral Temple once! That was the day I took office as the Garrison Commander." "I believe that even if it were Governor Su or Governor Lu, they would only be able to enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple when they changed positions..."

Chu Zhu seemed to be deep in thought. So... does this change of high position in a specific location mean that the change of position is being carried out under the watchful eye of the goddess Nuwa?

"The regulatory procedures for entering and exiting the Imperial Ancestral Temple are extremely strict!" Huo Qiming emphasized.

Chu Zhu wasn't surprised. Although he knew very little about the capital, that was relative. He had entered the palace before and had even tentatively tried to enter the Imperial Ancestral Temple…

However, infiltrating the palace is easy enough, but the Imperial Ancestral Temple... you'd die no matter how many times you tried!
Chu Zhu recalled that she seemed to have died... well, a thousand or two times? She almost developed a stress reaction from dying so many times. Eventually, Chu Zhu gave up. At the time, she thought it was a very late-game map! She couldn't possibly get in during the early game.

This is why, even though Chu Zhu could have known much more by going to the Imperial Ancestral Temple and truly touching upon the Goddess Nuwa, she still stubbornly persisted in this battle against Nuwa No. 17.

Because in his current state, which is not much stronger than that of an ordinary person, based on past experience... no matter how many times he dies, he has no confidence to get in!

However... Huo Qiming's words made him understand the only way to get in—to continuously rise through the ranks within the imperial court system, and once he reached a certain level, he would have to take an oath at the ancestral temple where the goddess Nuwa resided to change positions!

But that's normal. From the current perspective, the goddess Nuwa is a legitimate part of the current imperial family of the Great Qian Dynasty!
No matter how exaggerated a dynasty's defense of legitimacy may be, it is never excessive.

"As for if you could gain the unrestricted support of the goddess Nuwa..." Huo Qiming remained silent for a long time before sighing, "If you said that in front of Governor Su, you'd probably be beheaded. Actually, you'd better tell me... you were just joking! Otherwise, I can't let you off so easily."

Chu Zhu's eyelids twitched, and Ning Linglong's body was trembling. Then he realized that his action was no less than pulling out the Imperial Seal of the State in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and solemnly declaring, "By the mandate of Heaven, may it live forever!"

Just give it a try!

Aside from Zhu Biao, who would only get a beating for doing this... everyone else who tried it remained silent.

Chu Zhu calmly stated that she was joking, and then everyone present tacitly ignored the matter.

Chu Zhu was deep in thought.

He was actually very curious whether Nuwa's mainframe still possessed extremely powerful strength. In the past, he had actually thought that it did not, after all, Nuwa had almost exhausted her backup plans after fighting several wars in the Heavenly Court!

However, the actions of the higher-ups in the capital made him feel something was off... If they really had no power at all, then why bother with this cultivation of leeks, and why go through all this trouble of using the black gloves and testing them like this?
Is it because even if Nuwa had no power, she was still the source of legitimacy? Chu Zhu felt that while this was possible, it was unlikely, because legitimacy was only most useful when things were stable... in chaotic times, legitimacy was the least useful. The Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in his previous life was proof of this!
The current Daqian Dynasty has already undergone a dynastic change and experienced a period of chaos... Under these circumstances, if Nuwa were truly useless, wouldn't she have already been tested during those chaotic times? Even if she were still the legitimate source, those people wouldn't have shown such reverence for Nuwa.

Or perhaps Nuwa actually possessed some special power?
If Nuwa truly possessed some special power... what could it be? She was ultimately just an artificial intelligence, and a limited one at that, lacking independent autonomy, only comparable to the current Z...

Chu Zhu narrowed his eyes. He quickly thought of someone: the Heavenly God, the master worshipped by the God-Worshipping Society.

Nuwa's comrades-in-arms during the Heavenly War!

At the same time, he also thought of... forbidden artifacts, spiritual artifacts!

If... it's possible that God left some contingency plan, allowing Nuwa to control certain incredibly powerful artifacts... then it's understandable why she could be considered the legitimate source! It's definitely not just a simple legend of Nuwa creating humans...

Chu Zhu shook his head, clearing his mind of all the jumbled thoughts. He sighed inwardly. Trying to get support from Nuwa's mainframe now was essentially the same as trying to get the Pope to come and solve the problem before...

Not to mention, the only way to see Nuwa now, besides storming the capital, is to rise through the ranks to a certain level...

If everything goes smoothly, he can see the person immediately upon arrival and resolve the issue instantly... but in terms of time, it might be too late.

No matter how you calculate it, he only has half a day! The capital city... is much farther than Tianjing.

(End of this chapter)